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Why do you think they can't? Biden is so unpopular right now, there's only political downside to US or NATO intervention.

by dannyw 5y ago

grrger 5y ago
kasey_junk 5y ago
Only because I didn’t know and was curious about context, Biden is more popular now (as judged by aggregate approval rating ala 538) than Trump was at this point in his presidency (43% vs 39%). He’s about the same as Trumps average approval rating for the rest of his term until the end when Trumps rating tanked. Biden is lower than any other candidate they’ve tracked at this point but Clinton had a lower period earlier and Truman had a lower period very soon after this point in his presidency.
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rvz 5y ago
I mean the prediction he made about the Taliban impossibly invading Afghanistan well there's that and most certainly that went well (!). Now you have them pleading and begging to Putin on a weak foot after those events. Looks like war it is. All thanks to the Biden administration. Oh dear.
jmyeet 5y ago
This [1] summarizes it well: > Yet despite these humbling failures, the present crisis reveals there is still a reflexive tendency to assume the United States has the right, responsibility, and (most important of all) capacity to dictate political arrangements all over the world, even in regions that are more important to others than they are to the West. The United States didn’t have that capacity at the height of the unipolar era, and it certainly doesn’t have that capacity today. Here is the key point: > When your opponent has local military superiority and cares more about the outcome than you do, resolving a dispute typically requires some adjustments on your part. This isn’t a question of right or wrong; it’s a question of leverage. That aside, Biden and the Democratic Party just don't have the appetite for protracted conventional war with a nuclear superpower as evidenced by the lack of such appetite in Iraq or Afghanistan. [1]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/23/united-states-europe-war-russia-ukraine-sleepwalking/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/23/united-states-europe-wa...

Why do you think they can't? Biden is so unpopular right now, there's only political downside to US or NATO intervention.

by dannyw 5y ago

Why do you think they can't? Biden is so unpopular right now, there's only political downside to US or NATO intervention.

grrger 5y ago

kasey_junk 5y ago

Only because I didn’t know and was curious about context, Biden is more popular now (as judged by aggregate approval rating ala 538) than Trump was at this point in his presidency (43% vs 39%). He’s about the same as Trumps average approval rating for the rest of his term until the end when Trumps rating tanked. Biden is lower than any other candidate they’ve tracked at this point but Clinton had a lower period earlier and Truman had a lower period very soon after this point in his presidency.

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rvz 5y ago

I mean the prediction he made about the Taliban impossibly invading Afghanistan well there's that and most certainly that went well (!). Now you have them pleading and begging to Putin on a weak foot after those events. Looks like war it is. All thanks to the Biden administration. Oh dear.

jmyeet 5y ago

This [1] summarizes it well: > Yet despite these humbling failures, the present crisis reveals there is still a reflexive tendency to assume the United States has the right, responsibility, and (most important of all) capacity to dictate political arrangements all over the world, even in regions that are more important to others than they are to the West. The United States didn’t have that capacity at the height of the unipolar era, and it certainly doesn’t have that capacity today. Here is the key point: > When your opponent has local military superiority and cares more about the outcome than you do, resolving a dispute typically requires some adjustments on your part. This isn’t a question of right or wrong; it’s a question of leverage. That aside, Biden and the Democratic Party just don't have the appetite for protracted conventional war with a nuclear superpower as evidenced by the lack of such appetite in Iraq or Afghanistan. [1]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/23/united-states-europe-war-russia-ukraine-sleepwalking/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/23/united-states-europe-wa...